Founder Focus

​This week marks the end of our celebration of National Hispanic Heritage Month and we have absolutely loved shining the spotlight on all of the incredible founders we have featured from the InvestHer Directory. All of the inspiring Latinx founders we have celebrated this month are blazing a trail in their respective fields and we can’t wait to see what happens next on their entrepreneurial journeys!  

About the Founders
Our celebration of National Hispanic Heritage Month continues with three amazing Latinx founders, all transformative in their fields. Meet Frances Gonzalez, Owner & Founder of Vegan Wines! She’s a long time vegan wine lover with a focus on sourcing and sharing high-quality vegan wines, from soil to bottle. This week, we also want you to meet Sabrina Bethunin, Co-Founder & Co-CEO at MadeComfy, Australia's first performance-based home sharing partner and a fast growing disrupter in the Real Estate and Travel market. Finally, we want you to meet Carlota Pi Amoros, Co-Founder & Executive President at Holaluz! She’s leading a transformation of the energy sector by putting the customer in the centre of decisions and building a long-term relationship based on trust.
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About the Founders
As always, a new month equals a new theme for our Featured Founders Spotlight series from our InvestHer Directory. This time, we are honouring National Hispanic Heritage Month. Meet Lucia Rubio Zornoza, Co-Founder of @gazella.app, the number one running app for women! Gazella automatically adjusts your running training plan to your menstrual-cycle for the healthiest result possible. We also want to introduce you to Cristina Junqueira, Co-Founder of @nubank. By heading up Brazil's number one challenger bank, she is effectively combatting high fees and interest rates through technology and design. Finally, we want you to meet Julia Niiro, Founder & CEO at Farmstand (@localmilkrun)- This online marketplace and distribution technology makes it easy to buy food directly from local farmers.
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Join us in supporting Latinx power all month!

About the Founders
For our final week of Arts & Culture month we want to introduce you to three founders from the InvestHer Directory whom all place originality at the heart of their ventures. Karina Iskin, Co-Founder & CEO at Iskin Sisters is creating wearable art in the shape of customised jewellery, allowing for individuality in expression. Elizabeth Vargas, Founder & CEO at Edge Music Network, inspires originality via her interactive digital music network, providing live and on-demand content through her powerful video syndication platform. Finally, we have Morgan DeBaun, Founder & CEO at Blavity, the leading news company and media brand for Black millennials + Gen Z in the U.S.

About the Founders
This week our three featured founders are all tapping into their imaginations when it comes to promoting art! Angie Madara, Founder & CEO at Growd Global, is working with parents and children to find, design and match them to co-curricular activities such as music, sports and arts. Rebecca Hui, Founder & CEO at Roots Studio, is leading a collective of future-forward creatives, grassroots community organisers, and technologists reimagining cultural preservation. Julie Bonnecarrere, Founder & CCO at Northern Lights Entertainment, is currently developing Nebulae: a sci-fiMMO strategy game encompassing an integrated political simulator and 3D combat in space.
They are all pushing boundaries and using their imagination to find new creative ways to place art at the forefront in public debate.

About the Founders
A new month equals a new theme and during the month of September we will introduce you to some fabulous founders in the Arts/Culture/Entertainment industry from our InvestHer Directory. Renata Thome, Co-Founder & CCO, Alpha’a is making art accessible for all through her socially conscious, community-oriented online platform. Sarah Mak, Co-Founder & CEO, Folktale is on a mission to transform how organisations globally approach storytelling. Clothilde Chalot, Co-Founder & CEO, NomadPlay is making it possible to access thousands of interactive sheet music and play along with the best musicians.
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Art is truly at the centre of all heARTs this month, read on below to learn more about these passionate founders.

About the Founders
This week our featured founders from the InvestHer Directory all place connection at the core of great holiday moment and this means bringing people together through body and soul experiences. Cherae Robinson, Founder & CEO at Tastemakers Africa for instance is busy connecting travellers to creative entrepreneurs in African cities like Accra, Cape Town and Johannesburg. Our second founder this week is Emma Welsh, Co-Founder & CEO at Emma & Tom’s, help you to reconnect with your body and feel amazing while making healthy delicious. Finally we want to introduce you to Hyojeong Kim, Founder & CEO at NomadHer, empowering women globetrotters to travel solo by connecting them through her app!

About the Founders
​This week we would like for you to meet Ama Marfo, Co-Founder & CEO at Airfordable, dedicated to making travel accessible and affordable for all, because all of us deserve to have new experiences in our lives. Our second founder this week is Olga Pavuka, Founder & CEO at DeepH, placing emphasis on technology when it comes to tracking energy/activity in order to help us live our happiest and healthiest lives. The third founder of the week is Antoinette Palmer-Davis, CEO at Ettenio, focused on providing customers with 100% jamaican handmade ecoluxury personal care products with only the best from nature.
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This week it’s all about affordable wellness, happy pampering!

About the Founders
Johanna Mukoki, Co-Founder & Owner of Travel with Flair is adding a little bit of sophistication to the world of corporate travel, making it the easiest it has ever been as clients now can book their routine travel online, whenever and wherever. In her search for excellence, Kristin Karst, Co-Owner & Executive Vice President of AmaWaterways ended up starting her own travel company, placing luxury at the heart of her riverboat holiday tours. On the other end of the travel spectrum is Aziza Chaouachi, Co-Founder & CEO at Leavy.co, offering millennials on a budget a way to use their homes as a means to a holiday end through her home rental platform.
Bon Voyage!